{"product_id":"9783899552300","title":"The Story of Eames Furniture","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this unique publication, Marilyn and\u003cbr\u003eJohn Neuhart tell the story, to paraphrase\u003cbr\u003eCharles Eames himself, of how Eames furniture got to be the way it is. The Story of\u003cbr\u003eEames Furniture is a biography —not of an individual person, but of arguably the most influential and important furniture brand of our time. Brimming with more than\u003cbr\u003e2,500 images and insider information, this two-volume book in a slipcase sheds new light on the context in which the furniture of Charles and Ray Eames was created. It documents in unparalleled detail how the design process in the Eames Office developed as well as the significant roles played by specific designers and manufacturers.\u003cbr\u003eVolume 1 presents the early years of the\u003cbr\u003eEames Office and its method of furniture design and development. It introduces not only Charles and Ray Eames, but also key members of their design team including Eero\u003cbr\u003eSaarinen, Harry Bertoia, Herbert Matter, and others —a widely diverse group of people who did the day-by-day work on the furniture projects and who together ultimately turned contemporary design in a new direction.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume also focuses on Charles\u003cbr\u003eEames’s early work with plywood and how he adapted plywood-molding techniques into a system to mass-produce furniture.\u003cbr\u003eVolume 2 features the period from the aftermath of the Second World War through\u003cbr\u003e1978, the year of Charles Eames’s death and of the effective, functional end of the Eames\u003cbr\u003eOffice. By explaining the pioneering industrial processes used with innovative materials such as fiberglass, wire, and aluminum, it provides incomparable insight into how new technologies served as the genesis for the most interesting pieces of Eames furniture.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume also focuses on the role of the\u003cbr\u003eHerman Miller Furniture Company in the evolution of furniture design at the Eames\u003cbr\u003eOffice and investigates the influence of Don\u003cbr\u003eAlbinson, who was Charles Eames’s primary designer and technician from the mid-1940s to 1960.\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Eames Furniture celebrates\u003cbr\u003eCharles Eames’s vanguard cultural achievement of giving modern society the opportunity of materializing its identity through furniture design that, even today, still tops bestseller lists and has not lost any of its original elegance, timelessness, freshness,\u003cbr\u003eand quality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gestalten","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055048016112,"sku":"9783899552300","price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783899552300_p0.jpg?v=1763702353","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783899552300","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}